Tagged: research

July 28, 2024 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tracxn, a global SaaS-based market intelligence platform, has released its Geo Semi-Annual Report: UK FinTech H1 2024. The report, based on Tracxn’s extensive database, “provides insights into the United Kingdom (UK) FinTech space.” The UK FinTech ecosystem was “the second highest globally in terms of… Read More

July 27, 2024 @ 1:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jumio, the provider of automated, AI-driven identity verification, risk signals and compliance solutions, released new findings from its Jumio 2024 Online Identity Study, revealing growing concern among Americans on the political influence AI and deepfakes may have during upcoming elections and how they might influence… Read More

July 26, 2024 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments provider, announces the results of its commissioned 2024 Total Economic Impact (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The independent study outlines a three-year, risk-adjusted present value and ROI for a composite organization “comprised of interviewees with significant experience working with… Read More

July 26, 2024 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has released the State of startup compensation, H1 2024 update. Carta data shows that companies have “become leaner and salary benchmarks have remained flat across much of the ecosystem.” Companies on Carta made “more than 60,000 new hires during the first four months of… Read More

July 25, 2024 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global small business platform, Xero, released its quarterly Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) report for Canada, based on data from January to March 2024. The update showed incremental “improvements for the sector across sales growth, late payments and time-to-paid metrics, a signal that Canada‘s small… Read More

July 25, 2024 @ 6:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On 18th July 2024, a large number of Windows users found themselves caught in what’s being called the “largest IT outage in history.”  Crowdstrike (NASDAQ:CRWD), an IT cyber protection firm, stumbled in an update that caused a global outage. Shares in the firm have dropped… Read More

July 24, 2024 @ 4:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Three in five people believe that the U.S. is currently in a recession, even though we’re not in one officially, according to new research from Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth. The survey of 2,000 Americans explored… Read More

July 24, 2024 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK is a significantly more entrepreneurial society than it was at the start of the millennium, the world’s largest survey of entrepreneurship has found. This, according to an update from NatWest. For the first time since the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor records began “a quarter… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Birchal, the leading investment crowdfunding platform (crowd-sourced funding) in Australia has published its half year report reviewing industry activity. According to the platform, investment crowdfunding is displaying “sustained stability” and growth in platform activity. Birchal shares in its Crowd-Sourced Funding (CSF) FY24 Industry Report ‘Funded’… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Matías Andrade and Tanay Ved have recently shared key takeaways from a Coin Metrics report which noted that Mt. Gox creditors are finally receiving repayments, “with approximately $9 billion worth of Bitcoin set for distribution in July.” As mentioned in the Coin Metrics report, the… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After nearly breaching all-time highs in 2024 Q1, the total crypto market cap returned some of those gains in Q2, “dropping -14.4%, closing at $2.43 trillion in June,” the team at CoinGecko noted. 2024 Q2 brought Bitcoin’s long-anticipated fourth halving, which “went off without a… Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 8:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockbuster deals to Stripe and AlphaSense buoy an otherwise flat quarter for the Fintech sector, according to an extensive update from CBInsights. On the surface, Q2’24 was a return “to growth for fintech, with funding increasing 19% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) to $8.9B,” the CBInsights report revealed…. Read More

July 21, 2024 @ 6:24 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Amid the accelerating shift towards digital banking, nearly half of banking customers in Ghana still favor traditional banking methods, according to the 2024 PwC Ghana Banking Survey Report. The survey reveals that 47% of respondents prefer to conduct their banking transactions through conventional means, highlighting… Read More

July 20, 2024 @ 5:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain Coinvestors, a blockchain venture fund-of-funds and co-investment program with a combined portfolio of more than 1,250 blockchain enterprises and projects, including 95 blockchain unicorns, announced its bi-annual Meet the Blockchain Unicorns report which includes the most comprehensive list of blockchain unicorns globally – “including… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 6:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mid-market private equity investment activity in the UK declined by 11% in the first half of 2024, as challenging macroeconomic conditions persisted, according to KPMG UK’s latest mid-market Private Equity analysis. The firm’s most recent M&A research study revealed “that 321 mid-market transactions were completed… Read More

July 18, 2024 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital identity is not the easiest concept to define, according to an update from Juniper Research. That’s because it overlaps with other, similar, areas. Juniper Research noted that the crossover “with areas such as security, privacy and data management can be significant, and in some… Read More

July 17, 2024 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sumsub is pleased to introduce the ‘2024 Fraudlympics,’ ahead of the upcoming competition in Paris this summer. As part of an awareness campaign, Sumsub unveils new internal data revealing that Nigeria is the country with the highest spike in fraud rates, “across a range of… Read More

July 17, 2024 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eight out of 14 UK sectors saw output grow in June, according to latest data from the Lloyds Bank UK Sector Tracker. While this was three fewer than in May (11), when the Tracker reported “a 15-month high when the economy moved back into growth… Read More

July 15, 2024 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The recent election of Labour in the UK is likely to result in “major changes” to fintech and payments markets, according to an analysis shared by Juniper Research. Juniper Research notes in a blog post that as industry watchers, they wanted to “examine the new… Read More

July 14, 2024 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The embedded finance market is now ranking and evolving, according to an update shared by CBInsights. The report notes that this is taking place where integrated financial services are maturing, emerging, and plateauing. This latest research report uses the CB Insights TECH Framework in order… Read More